The heavy rain that had been falling all day finally stopped, and the whole sky was washed by the majestic rain, and the clean tiles seemed even more vast and far-reaching.

The moat excavated in front of the Erryugu Fortress was also filled with water, turning it into a real moat. It's just that the traps originally set at the bottom of the ditch have basically lost their effect, and the wooden thorns, thistles and other things buried at the bottom of the ditch have disappeared under the heavy rain.

Faced with this situation, Jiang Chuan was also very helpless, after all, God is fair, and he will not favor the Qing army, nor will he favor him.

The Qing army camp outside the valley, which had been ravaged by heavy rain for a whole day, finally had a movement, and with the continuous sound of the whining horn, groups of Qing soldiers drove out of the camp, and then began to line up at the Yuanmen.

Jiang Chuan watched from the city tower and said to Liu Ji next to him: "Military advisor, are you going to start attacking the city?" “

Liu Ji carefully observed for a moment and then shook his head and said, "No, these Tartars below are mostly cavalry, and they should be the vanguard troops of the Tartars." They don't have the ability to storm the city, so in my opinion, they should just demonstrate to our army. The Tartars were watered by heavy rain yesterday, and their morale will definitely be affected somewhat, so they simply put up a position to demonstrate to our army in order to raise some morale. ”

"What the military advisor said is reasonable, so according to the military advisor, how should our army respond?" Jiang Chuan nodded and asked.

"Although the purpose of the Tartars is to demonstrate, of course, there is also the purpose of luring our troops out of the city for field battles. The Tartar cavalry is the best at field warfare, and if our army goes out of the city, it will just fall into the arms of the Tartars. Therefore, our army is to stand still. Liu Ji said in a deep voice.

"What the military advisor said is good. But we can't look at the Tartars so arrogant, and we have to give them a little welcome gift. Jiang Chuan smiled, turned around and shouted, "Bai Mu, look for Li Han of the artillery team." ”

Bai Mu quickly called Li Han over.

"Li Han see the general, please give the general's orders!" Li Han's mental state has obviously improved a lot in the past few days, and he seems to be full of energy, and he no longer has the sincerity and fear he had when he first surrendered.

He is now wearing a fine iron armor specially equipped for the generals of each battalion, a black helmet, and a long knife hanging from his waist, and he does have some brave temperament.

Jiang Chuan looked at him and said with a smile: "Good boy, he is in good shape." I ask you, if you fire at the Tartar army, are you sure that you will be able to hit it accurately? ”

As soon as he mentioned the matter of firing the cannon, Li Han's eyes immediately lit up, and his whole person exuded a strong self-confidence. He took a step forward, gave a thumbs up and gestured twice at the Qing army formation in the distance, and then said firmly: "General, no problem." ”

"Okay, you go and arrange all the cannons on the city wall to prepare, aim at the Tartar formation, and remember to use the flowering shells. When to fire the cannon to see me order the flag to act. Jiang Chuan ordered in a deep voice.

"No! The last will obey! Li Han shouted his order, turned around and left quickly.

Soon, Li Han's loud order was heard from all gun emplacements, and the gunners began to get busy.

The Qing soldiers outside the city did not notice the movement on the city wall here, and they were still driving out of the camp and forming a formation.

Yesterday's torrential rain caught the 5,000 strikers of the Tartars off guard, and after braving the downpour and barely setting up the camp, basically everyone was left behind. That night, many people caught a cold and fever, and the whole camp was full of coughing and sneezing, which made the former army commander very annoyed.

Originally, as a former army, they thought that it would not take much effort to break through the cottage of a horse thief, but they didn't expect to see it when they arrived at the place, and their hearts of meritorious achievements suddenly cooled down.

The tall and wide city wall, the strong and tall city gate, the stone towers on the cliffs on both sides, and the wide and deep moat in front of the city gate, all show that this so-called horse thief's nest is an extremely difficult bone to gnaw.

Who the hell said that this is a horse thief's lair, give Lao Tzu out, Lao Tzu promises to kill him with a knife!

The former military commander greeted all the scout ancestors of the eighteen generations who inquired about the news. But before this greeting was over, it was poured by the overwhelming rain all night, so that the originally high morale fell a lot overnight.

So as soon as the sky cleared today, he ordered the army to go out of the camp and line up. Its purpose is just as Liu Ji analyzed, one is to demonstrate, and the other is to lure the enemy out of the city for field battles.

He has also been in battle for a long time, so he naturally knows that his strengths lie in field warfare, not siege. First, they were cavalry, and they were not good at attacking cities. Second, even if they made a cameo appearance in the infantry siege of the city, they would not have any siege equipment.

So his idea was to demonstrate in formation, to provoke the enemy. If the enemy does not dare to go out of the city to meet the battle, the morale will inevitably be affected. If you go out of the city to fight, it will just hit his heart, so you can get the best of both worlds.

Morale is such a thing, mysterious and mysterious, it seems to be invisible, but it is very important on the battlefield. Experienced generals will find ways to boost their own morale and break the enemy's morale in order to win the battle.

This may work for ordinary soldiers, but not necessarily for elite troops. For Jiang Jiajun, an army that is overwhelmingly a base soldier, it is completely ineffective.

As long as Jiang Chuan is not impulsive, his provocative strategy is doomed to failure.

When the Qing army finished arraying, the desolate sound of the horn stopped, and soon the rumbling drums sounded again. The drum beat starts slowly at first and gradually increases to a rapid one.

To the rhythm of the snare drums, the Qing army slowly moved forward and pressed towards the city wall.

And while advancing, they shouted loudly, and many people also slapped their shields with their weapons, or their weapons collided with each other, and their mouths let out a wolf-like long howl.

If one person does this, it will make people feel uneasy, and if all five thousand people shout at the same time, the momentum that bursts out is very terrifying. Especially these Qing soldiers who were born in the mountains and forests and were savage in nature, all of them were fierce and fierce, and their momentum was quite powerful.

And their long howls accompanied by the rhythm of the drums became more and more violent and high-pitched, like five thousand wild wolves howling and screaming.

The sound created by the Qing army rolled in, Jiang Chuan felt his heart beat faster, and his body felt a little unstable on his feet, so he hurriedly reached out to support the city wall, and said a little nervously: "How can these Tartar soldiers feel like wolves, and they will attack with sound waves?" “

Liu Ji, who was beside him, was obviously also affected by this rolling sound, his face was a little pale, and he took a deep breath and said: "The Eight Banners are so powerful that they really live up to their reputation. In the old days, I have heard that when the nomads hunted, thousands of people would come from all sides with weapons in hand and shout in unison to deter their prey. When I saw it today, I didn't expect these Tartar soldiers to use the hunting method of the past on the military array, and suddenly I heard that it really has the effect of stealing people's hearts, which should not be underestimated. ”

Jiang Chuan frowned, looked left and right, and the soldiers on the city wall basically didn't look too unusual, so he was relieved.

And the Qing soldiers under the city are getting closer and closer, and the sound attacks are higher and higher with the rhythm of the drums, which makes people's hearts beat and can't help themselves.

Damn, we have to break their rhythm, we can't let these Tartars scream anymore, or I'll be ashamed as the manager.

"Prepare to fire!" Jiang Chuan took a deep breath, tried his best to calm down quickly, and said loudly to Li Jian behind him.

Li Jian held a red and a black flag in his hand, the red wave represented the attack, and the black wave represented the stop.

The Qing army phalanx did not continue to advance when it was about an arrow away, and it was obvious that the Qing army commander was also afraid of attacking them with crossbow arrows from the city.

And after estimating the height of the city wall, he extended a lot further back according to the usual stone's throw away, and only relieved himself after he felt that his men and horses were in a safe position.

The drumbeat behind him became more and more intensive, and the long howl of the Qing soldiers became more and more high-pitched and poignant, and even made people feel that there was a feeling that the devil was howling.

Jiang Chuan took a deep breath, and then suddenly shouted, "Fire!" ”

The small red flag in Li Jian behind him pointed towards the city, and then waved it up and down three times.

Li Han, who was behind a red-clothed cannon, stared nervously at the little flag, and after seeing the flag waving, he shouted loudly: "Fire!" Five rapid fires! ”

There was also a herald behind him, and there were two small flags, one red and one black, in his hand, and the small red flag in his hand waved downward, and then waved back and forth in the air five times.

Seeing that each gun position of the flag had a gun commander, he pulled out the long knife at his waist and slashed forward and shouted: "Ignite, fire!" ”

Suddenly, the fire ropes at the ends of more than a dozen red-clothed cannons on the city wall and on the four stone towers were ignited, and they began to burn with sparks.

Almost at the same moment, more than a dozen cannons let out an earth-shattering roar, the muzzle flames flashed, and more than a dozen black cannonballs whizzed across the sky and fell towards the heads of the Qing soldiers who were still howling and shouting.

The momentum of the Qing soldiers who launched the sonic attack was interrupted by the loud sound of the cannon firing in an instant, and one by one they stared up at the dozen or so black shells flying from space with wide eyes and raised their heads, and no one even thought to dodge.

They didn't expect that there would be a red-coated cannon in a so-called horse thief's den, and there were more than a dozen of them, so they didn't realize that this loud noise was the sound of a cannon, so they didn't mean to dodge at all.

As for the news that all the thirty red-clothed cannons escorted by Tong Yang fell into the hands of the Jiang family's army, Dolgon and Duoduo naturally blocked it and would not let these low-level Qing soldiers know.

Even the former army commander did not know the news, which led him to carry out this provocative tactic with his own cleverness.

Therefore, by the time some of the Qing soldiers realized what was falling on their heads, it was already too late. More than a dozen flowering shells landed in the dense queue of Qing soldiers, and there was a violent explosion in an instant.

Fragments from the shells were scattered in all directions, accompanied by various nails, thistles, broken porcelain pieces, and even irritating things like pepper.

In an instant, the sound of explosions in the Qing army array sounded one after another, black smoke billowed out, screams were repeated, blood was flying, and even broken arms and broken hands flew up from the crowd from time to time, which was a mess.

The sound attack of the Qing soldiers was instantly interrupted by a round of artillery shells, and all that could be heard on the entire battlefield was the screams and wails of the Qing soldiers and the neighing of war horses.

The former commander of the Qing army, who was standing after the war and watching the battle, was dumbfounded when he saw this scene.